De Dansers

De Dansers is an Utrecht-based company of dancers and musicians, led by choreographer/dancer Josephine van Rheenen and composer/musician Guy Corneille. We are known for our ‘dance concerts’: organic gatherings of modern dance and live music. Performances by De Dansers tell accessible, intuitively compelling stories about liberation and surrender, in which playful anarchism is never far away. We want to break free from what can make you feel stuck or create stillness where attention is needed. We make work that appeals to the liveliness of children and that re-invokes forgotten desires for surrender and physical contact in adults. 

CHOREOGRAPHER Josephine van Rheenen (1988) studied Dance Education at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam and started as a dancer at De Dansers during her studies. After being on stage for five years with, among others, De Dansers, Vloeistof and Breekgoed, she succeeded Wies Merkx as artistic leader of De Dansers in 2014, together with Guy Corneille. Since then she has made her own work for De Dansers for both children and adults. As a choreographer, Josephine searches for humanity in dance and strives for an intuitive dance language based on instincts. Openness, surrender and interaction are key words in her work.